[Acpc-l] Vortrag: Dr. Moreira, IBM Watson, 14.5.01

[Maria Cherry]

                             UNIVERSITAET WIEN 
                      INSTITUT FUER SOFTWAREWISSENSCHAFT
                               gemeinsam mit
              FWF-Projekt Spezialforschungsbereich F011 "AURORA"


        EINLADUNG ZU EINEM VORTRAG IM RAHMEN DES AURORA-KOLLOQUIUMS
        
                  
                   Blue Gene: A Massively Parallel System
                         
            
                               Jose E. Moreira
                      IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
                          Yorktown Heights NY 10598
                  
                  
                  ZEIT: Montag, 14. 5. 2001, 17.15 Uhr s.t.
                   ORT: Institut fuer Softwarewissenschaft
                     1090 Wien, Liechtensteinstrasse 22, 
                             Seminarraum, Mezzanin


Abstract:

ABSTRACT: Blue Gene is a massively parallel system being developed at the
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. With its 4 million-way parallelism and 1
Petaflop peak performance, Blue Gene is a unique environment for research
in parallel processing. Full exploitation of the machine's capability
requires 100-way shared memory parallelism inside a single-chip
multiprocessor node and message-passing across 30,000 nodes. Even more
challenging, this parallelism has to be exploited in the presence of failed
components, both in the form of entire nodes and in the form of nodes that
have some broken subsystems. New programming models, languages, compilers,
and libraries will need to be investigated and developed for Blue Gene,
therefore offering the opportunity to break new ground in those areas. In
addition, system management and input/output operations in a system of this
scale present their own challenges. In this talk, I will describe some of
the hardware and software features of Blue Gene. I will also describe some
of the protein science and molecular dynamics computations that are
important driving forces behind Blue Gene.